author: Tyler Durden
Written by Nanette Holt and Natasha Holt through The Epoch Times (emphasis on ours),
While Florida's legislators are debating laws in the state capital, politician Ron DeSantis takes full steam to the end.
The 47-year-old Republican is in the last year of his second four-year word as governor, which makes him unauthorised to restart.
So he spends his political capital erstwhile "views the tape," said The Epoch Times during an interview at the Florida Governor's mansion.
He hopes for this award — that legislators will pass his proposed AI Charter. He said it was essential to defend the people of Florida and the natural resources of the state from the possible threats arising from the unlimited and fast improvement of artificial intelligence.
Draft legislature Act No 482, called the Act of the Rights of the AI, and the same bill The Chambers of 1395 pass separately through Florida's legislation, considered by the committees of both chambers. The legislators have until mid-March to pass the bill.
DeSantis hopes to be adopted, merged into a single bill and sent to his desk for signature, along with another bill to regulate the improvement of data centers needed to power AI.
The politician realises that this legislative force may put him in a confrontation with president Donald Trump, who called on the states not to interfere besides much with AI regulations. He and Trump, a erstwhile political mentor who helped DeSantis gain election in 2018, hesitated between being allies and opponents, and relations over the past year warmed up.
But DeSantis, a Harvard-educated lawyer, a erstwhile congressman and father of 3 tiny children, says that the AI threat simplification cannot wait.
Currently, barriers are needed to defend residents, jobs, the economy and the environment from damage.
In December 2025, DeSantis announced his proposal for an AI Charter, which includes data protection, parental control on the interaction of children with AI, consumer notification requirements erstwhile utilizing AI, and much more.
This measurement is needed, he said, due to the fact that fast-growing AI technology already permeates everyday life – from retail buying to medical care. And frequently people do not realize that they are dealing with a technological tool alternatively than a man, he said.
"Every fresh technology, as it is developed, must be developed ethically, morally, and must strengthen our values as Americans" said DeSantis. "And it cannot be something that seeks to replace human experience. It must enrich human experience.
"I am very tense erstwhile I hear these people talk about transhumanism as not controlling people, and AI will regulation the world," he said.
This contradicts what it means to be an American, he said.
"Our Founding Fathers, 250 years ago—they established a rule: We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable laws, not machines."
He said that "technological innovation can bring quite a few good", for example in medicine and national defence. "In these circumstantial areas, we accept it, but there are truly large disadvantages."
Protection of privacy
Some of the proposed provisions would strengthen Florida's protection against alleged "deepfakes" and open material created by AI, including those representing minors.
Deepfakes are realistic-looking images, videos or audio recordings modified to look like individual did or said something they didn't or didn't say. With AI deepfakes they can imitate the image or voice of a individual well adequate to trick others into believing that they are true.
Rules would prohibit the usage of AI to present a individual without consent, for example in advertising or as part of a crime. It would besides require notification erstwhile individual interacts with AI, for example in the case of a chatbot.
Chatbots simulate interpersonal conversations, frequently in the form of telephone calls with client service or communication tools.
The fresh provision would ban government agencies and state agencies from utilizing AI tools created by "foreign countries of concern", specified as China. This would besides require that what users introduce to AI platforms stay private and block sales.
DeSantis' proposal would besides prohibit companies from offering alleged "licensed" therapy or intellectual wellness advice to clients who have contact with artificial intelligence in this area.
It would besides establish a control to limit conversation between children and AI and their parents. If the kid "shows disturbing behavior" during the interaction with AI, the regulations would require the parents to be informed.
The Act would besides reduce the way insurance companies usage AI to decide on the payment of insurance claims.
Requirements for data centres
Worldwide, there is widespread concern that the facilities needed to operate AI can negatively affect the environment, natural resources and wellness of people surviving nearby.
Digital AI processing centers usage immense amounts of resources. Data centers consumed 4.4 percent of the country's electricity in 2023, according to the US Department of Energy. By 2028, request in data centres is expected to increase to 12 percent of full electricity consumption across the country.
Large data centers usage up to 5 million gallons of water a day. This is about what the city of 10,000–50,000 inhabitants consumes, according to the Washington Institute for Environmental and Energy Research.
DeSantis admitted that hyperscale data centers, as they call them, can bring jobs and add quite a few taxation money to the state budget. But they require careful regulation, he said.
Related Act, which it promotes, would ban taxpayers' subsidies for large Tech, would reduce energy costs and give local authorities the chance to reject the proposed improvement of the immense facilities needed to operate AI in the field of work.
This bill would strengthen Florida's environmental protection. It would besides prohibit electricity, gas and water suppliers from charging higher charges to residents of Florida, as increasing data centres require more energy and water.
With increased usage of AI, the people of Florida will most likely lose their jobs," he added. Amazon announced on 28 January that it would destruct 16,000 jobs. The company is increasingly utilizing AI in its activities.
However, taxpayers losing their jobs by AI are frequently forced to support the improvement of AI through national grants to data centers, said DeSantis.
This could lead to a "generation of students" who "will not be able to find a job," he said. "It won't be good for our society."
DeSantis besides described his concerns that "who controls data sets—will have large power, the more these applications will be ubiquitous in society."
"And human nature is as it is, they will abuse this power. It's gonna happen. Therefore, we must have certain safeguards against abuse of power."
This power, under the control of "the handfuls of technological companies," may be "more crucial than the 1 that always had a king or president," said DeSantis for The Epoch Times.
Opposition
Officially against the Florida Charter of AI Rights is the Washington Computer & Communications manufacture Association, an global group representing Google, Meta and others.
The association sent a letter to members of the Florida legislature stating that the proposed government "would impose an extended and dispersed regulatory government that threatens to cool innovation, undermine freedom of speech and a crucial deviation from Florida's recommended national and global approaches to managing artificial intelligence."
The group's most crucial allegation is that the Act "includes besides broad and unclear regulatory scope" and that policies may rise concerns about privacy.
Trump besides criticised the state's efforts to introduce AI regulations. It is unclear whether the proposed Florida AI Bill of Rights and data center restrictions can interfere with Order Executive, which he signed a week after DeSantis announced the proposed law.
Among another things, the White home Directive requires national agencies to identify states with "burdening regulations" on AI and to limit part of their national funding. The regulation focuses on establishing a nationwide framework for AI so that differences in state regulations do not make "Mozaiki 50 different regulatory regimes".
The goal is to destruct "burdening regulation" for AI companies and support innovation in this area so that the United States "wins the race in AI".
Until legislature enacts a national standard for AI, the administration will question the "excessive" state rules impeding innovation in AI, is Trump's regulation.
The framework adopted by legislature "must ban state rules contrary to the policy contained in this order", as well as "ensure kid protection, prevention of censorship, respect for copyright and community protection."
"We are inactive surviving on the earliest days of this technological revolution, and we race our opponents for dominance within it," says the order.
Last year, legislators across the country introduced more than 1,000 AI-related laws, and 38 states adopted laws against this technology, according to the fresh Cato Institute report. In addition to Florida, regulations in California, fresh York and Texas may be affected by Trump's order, which clearly points to the Colorado Act prohibiting algorithmic discrimination.
Aversion to AI
Opposition to uncontrolled artificial intelligence continues to grow in the United States and in the world.
As of February 4, more than 800 artists, writers and actors engaged in a fresh anti-AI campaign, in which they request the end of their "stealing" of their work.
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